Sentence examples for Time futile from inspiring English sources
In a desperate – and I think I realised it even at the time, futile – attempt to drag myself out of my malaise, I took myself and my family off to India to research a follow-up book to my last, Sushi and Beyond.
Kerry should not underestimate the creative abilities of both sides to waste time on futile discussions, and must engage them on the essential issues.
An alternative strategy would be for Democrats to unilaterally declare victory in the culture war — allowing Republicans to waste time on futile rear guard actions — and to shift the political agenda to the jobs crisis.
As facemasks and terrifying headlines became the symbol of a resistance that at times seemed futile, the only real barrier to this devastating pandemic were healthcare professionals such as Urbani.
THERE can be few obsessions as eccentric, unrewarding and at times downright futile as shareholder activism in Germany, a land where the idea that companies should be run for their owners' benefit is often seen as a dangerous Anglo-American dogma.
"We need to dedicate some of our precious time to a futile, time-consuming ritual".
Have the "dish resisters" been wasting their time with a futile anti-Murdoch protest?
We health care professionals, already adapted to the priority of volume and productivity, experience 10-hour-plus days, gulp coffee or grab lunch while working, and "donate" private weekend time in the futile effort to catch up on swamping paperwork demands.
However, significantly, James did not employ Wright as an artist, but gave him the "time consuming and futile post" of steward on a diplomatic embassy.
They probably won't shut the government down this time in another futile effort to kill Obamacare (not after last time), but they could indeed do so for a whole range of other issues.
Her confusion has been replaced with a fresh sense of clarity of what she'd like to share with a man, and she's not wasting any more time in the futile act of figuring out what's wrong with her.
